The old lady and de gourd (Portugal)

Thank you Portugal for sending us the story about the old lady and de gourd.

It was a simple pleasant story to work with. Our children wanted to dramatise it! It was great fun!
They didn't know (and I didn't eather) what a gourd was, but thanks to your magnificent example the all could feel it, touch it, shake it...

As said, our children dramatised it. The result you can see in this film. The sound is not very good, our excuses!

The Bremen musicians

Kindergarten worked on the story of the Bremen musicians we got from our collegues in Germany.
They made the masks with the material we got!

French "tale", the Grasshoper (or cicada) and the ant.

Animated and musical version of the "tale" everyone has received / should receive soon.

Same "origin" for the "Tortoise and the Hare" :

And with Bugs Bunny as the hare !

Run, run small gourd

The english version on the portuguese story is now available. Hope you like it

Sequel to the Bremer Stadtmusikanten

We read the story untill the musicians came to the house of the rovers and start singing.

Children of my class wrote the ending to the story like they thougt.

The rovers are scared and run outside.

But the rovers come back to see what is happening in their house. But the musicians disguised them as a ghost and a big bear and make sure the rovers never come back.

The day after they leave to Bremen.

On their way they meet a hunter. He shoots at the animals but misses all his shots. The animals don’t like this and run away. But the hunter doesn’t give up that easily and follows them. He stops because a bear ( a real one) is approaching him. Of course the hunter is scared and he starts running away. The musicians are save…

But from all the running for the hunter they are almost in Bremen. Still a couple of minutes and they arrive!

In Bremen, they meet Bobby the duck. He was leaning sadly en tired against a tree. He was fired from the zoo because he was too old and he couldn’t swim anymore. But… he is a really good singer. Therefore the musicians say he can join them.

They go and search for the castle of the king of Bremen. They want to go and play music there. On the way to the castle they pass a ‘free shop’. There they ‘buy’ human masks and disguise them as real people.

They arrive at the castle of King Lars ( the King of Bremen). They ring at the big gate. De gate opens but there is nothing to see… they think. Luckily  for them, the cat has great eyes and sees the king. He is not the king they expected: he is very little!

Together they all start to play their best songs for the king. The king is seized with emotion and makes the musicians the official musicians of the court!

 From now on the musicians have the live they always dreamed of… singing, making music and be laaaaazzzzzyyyyyy…

This sequel was made by children of 8 years!